Pastoral Resources

As in nature, as in art, so in grace; it is rough treatment that gives souls, as well as stones, their luster.

Do you know that the ready concession of minor points is a part of the grace of life?

Religion and education are no match for evil without the grace of God.

Grace has been defined as the outward expression of the inward harmony of the soul.

Grace is the absence of everything that indicates pain or difficulty, hesitation or incongruity.

Grace in women has more effect than beauty.

Courage is grace under pressure.

All grace grows as Love to the Word of God grows.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

To hit bottom is to fall from grace.

When grace is joined with wrinkles, it is adorable. There is an unspeakable dawn in happy old age.

Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

Without vanity, without coquetry, without curiosity, in a word, without the fall, woman would not be woman. Much of her grace is in her frailty.

In wickedness of pride is lost the light to understand how little grace is earned and how much given.

One may preach a covenant of grace more clearly than another... But when they preach a covenant of works for salvation, that is not truth.

How can you sing of amazing grace and all God's wonders without using your hands?

If the grace of God miraculously operates, it probably operates through the subliminal door.

I'm becoming more and more myself with time. I guess that's what grace is. The refinement of your soul through time.

Literature is a state of culture, poetry is a state of grace, before and after culture.

Grace is in garments, in movements, in manners; beauty in the nude, and in forms. This is true of bodies; but when we speak of feelings, beauty is in their spirituality, and grace in their moderation.